Favor Quotes

We should favor innovation and freedom over regulation.

Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

I'm largely in favor of financial reform.

I am in favor of reducing all budget items. But the item I don't want to reduce is the pension expenditure because it affects the weakest part of society.

Given the difficulty of resisting such temptations over the longer run, a proper concern for the welfare of congressional souls may well be the ultimate argument in favor of term limitations.

I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

So my attorneys brought litigation in the U.S. federal courts. The judge ruled in our favor.

If you still want to kill him, do me a favor and take him outside. Those are new sheets.

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

I am favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.

If you can't return a favor, pass it on.

If you have a little extra parking, I err on the side of getting rid of it in favor of having some more greenery.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

If you want to make a dangerous man your friend, let him do you a favor.

I want to make a policy statement. I am unabashedly in favor of women.

You are going to make choices and decisions that sometimes aren't going to always work in your favor and they are going to upset some other people.

Perhaps the only thing in my favor is that I am very tenacious. I don't take 'no' very well.

We're strongly in favor of the U.N. plan for a solution to the Cyprus conflict. Hopefully a solution can be found before the end of this summit, but we cannot and will not let it block our decisions on enlargement.

There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

Germany is in favor of integration precisely because we don't want dominance.

People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.

You must strive to multiply bread so that it suffices for the tables of mankind, and not rather favor an artificial control of birth, which would be irrational, in order to diminish the number of guests at the banquet of life.

If we do what is necessary, all the odds are in our favor.

He had but one eye and the pocket of prejudice runs in favor of two.

The evidence that I see around me in society indicates that not only is thinking very much out of favor, but I'm not sure that the last couple of generations - Generation X and Generation Next, or whatever you want to call them - even know what a thought is, having been raised to be women.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

The real cause of personal existence is not the favor of the Almighty, but the sexual love of one's earthly parents.

Incumbent White House parties have won 10 of the last 18 presidential elections; the odds are tight, but they favor Obama in 2012. And so gloomy Democrats, check your despair; gleeful Republicans, watch the hubris.